• History

    Travel

    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    A "close" read of the president's beach reads.

     
    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
    Palestine

    How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

    By Literary Hub  August 27, 2025
    Politics

    The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD For Resisting Eviction

    By LaShawn Harris  August 27, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

    By Nick Foster  August 26, 2025
    Ancient History

    How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word

    By Moudhy Al-Rashid  August 26, 2025
    The Hub

    C-SPAN is starting a (very “patriotic”) book club.

    By Brittany Allen  August 25, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    The Hub

    The Black Cauldron turns 40 this year. Here’s why the famous flop is worth a second look.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Fascism

    The Fascist History of Yoga

    By Stewart Home  August 22, 2025
    Palestine

    The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

    Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

    By Philip Metres  August 27, 2025
    Iran

    Between Myth and Modernity: On Persian Stories, Identity, and the US-Iran Divide

    By Ryan Bani Tahmaseb  August 22, 2025
    Lesbian Literature

    On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp

    By Trish Bendix  August 21, 2025
    Style

    Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools

    By Kathleen B. Casey  August 21, 2025
    World War II

    Crossing the Atlantic During Britain’s Darkest Hour in World War II

    Doug Most on the Voyage of the RMS Scythia and the Beginning of America’s Preparation For War

    By Doug Most  August 20, 2025
    World War II

    After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation

    By Garrett M. Graff  August 20, 2025
    The Hub

    Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

    By Brittany Allen  August 19, 2025
    Slavery

    Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

    By Bitter Kalli  August 19, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

    Ed Simon Considers the Enduring Impact of the Atomic Bomb on Artistic and Literary Production

    By Ed Simon  August 18, 2025
    Philosophy

    How We Can Achieve a Good Life Through the Help of Others

    By Sebastian Purcell  August 18, 2025
    Ukraine

    A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

    By Olia Hercules  August 15, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

    By Nathan Kernan  August 14, 2025
    American Revolution

    Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship

    “How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

    By Matthew Redmond  August 13, 2025
    Sexuality

    How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

    By Margaret Grace Myers  August 13, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    American West

    The Making of America’s Frontier Mythology Was the Making of America

    By Paul Andrew Hutton  August 22, 2025
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